Verbinski still eager to make 'BioShock'

Gore Verbinski has said that he is still determined to make a movie based on the BioShock video game series.

The Pirates Of The Caribbean director dropped out of helming the Universal project last year, but is still on board to produce with 28 Weeks Later's Juan Carlos Fresnadillo now in the director's chair.

Verbinski told IGN that he wants the adaptation to carry a "hard R" rating to stay true to fans of the game: "We're working trying to make it. The problem with BioShock was: R-rated movie, underwater, horror. It's a really expensive R-rated movie.

"So we're trying to figure out a way working with Juan Carlos to get the budget down and still keep so it's true to the core audience, you know? The thing is it has to be R, a hard R.

"We don't want to dumb it down, we don't want to make it PG-13. We want to keep it really edgy, and it's a huge bill."

Verbinski also confessed that he isn't concerned about the difficulties other filmmakers have faced when making movies based on video games.

"No, I think BioShock's a rare one because it's actually a great story," he added. "Me? I don't want to make movies based on video games, but BioShock's the one Oedipal, crazy kind of - it's just got really good bones, and we're really trying to figure out a way to make it work."